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7 wonders
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Introduction
This page is dedicated to educate all the people about the seven wonders of the ancient world. These wonder are considered wonders because of their arquitectural beauty.
7 wonders
The wonders are: The great pyramid of giza. The Hanging gardens of Babylon, The statue of Zeus at Olympia The temple of Artemis at Ephesus The mausoleum at Halicarnassus The colossus of Rhodes The lighthouse of Alexandria
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The great Pyramid of Giza
The hanging Gardens of Babylon
The statue of Zeus
The temple of Arthemis
The Colussus
The mausoleum
The lighthouse
The Great Pyramid of Giza
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Location
The Pyramid is located at the city of Giza, a necropolis of ancient Memphis, and today part of Greater Cairo, Egypt.
The Great Pyramid
The great Pyramid of Gizah is the only wonder still standing. The monument was built by the egyptian pharaoh Khufu of the Fourth Dynasty around the year 2560 BC. It was built to serve as a tomb. The pyramid is 756 feet long on each side and 450 feet high. It is made up of 2,300,000 blocks, that each weigh two and a half tons. It took 20 years for 100,000 slaves to build it. It required 112 men to lift each separate block.
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The Great Pyramid of Giza was the world's tallest building from c. 2570 BC to c. 1300 AD.
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Map
This map shows the pyramid and its sorroundings. If you look closely you can see the sphynx.
The great Pyramid
The Statue Of Zeus
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The Statue was built to celebrate the Olympic Games. All the athletes came to participate and worship Zeus. The statue was built around 450 BC. Many people cam to visit the great statue from all parts of the world.
Location
At the ancient town of Olympia, on the west coast of modern Greece, about 150 km west of Athens.
Size
The Statue was very impressing because of its size. The seated statue occupied the whole width of the aisle of the temple that was built to house it, and was 40 feet (12 meters) tall.
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Olympia was struck by earthquakes, landslides and floods, and the temple was damaged by fire in the fifth century AD. Earlier, the statue had been transported by wealthy Greeks to a palace in Constantinople. There, it survived until it was destroyed by a severe fire in AD 462. Today nothing remains at the site of the old temple except rocks and debris, the foundation of the buildings, and fallen columns.
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The Hanging Gardens
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Location
The Hanging Gardens were Located on Babylon. Babylon was on the east bank of the River Euphrates, about 50 km south of Baghdad, Iraq.
The Hanging Gardens
The King Nebuchadnezzar II is credited for building the Hanging Gardens. It is said that the Gardens were built by Nebuchadnezzar to please his wife who loved to be in a beautiful sorroundings.
Description
"The Hanging Garden has plants cultivated above ground level, and the roots of the trees are embedded in an upper terrace rather than in the earth. The whole mass is supported on stone columns... Streams of water emerging from elevated sources flow down sloping channels... These waters irrigate the whole garden saturating the roots of plants and keeping the whole area moist. Hence the grass is permanently green and the leaves of trees grow firmly attached to supple branches... This is a work of art of royal luxury and its most striking feature is that the labor of cultivation is suspended above the heads of the spectators".
The Hanging Gardens
No evidence has been found from actual babylon citizens that suggest that the gardens really existed. Many people believe that the gardens were just an exageration made by Alexander's soldiers.
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Gardens
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The Colossus
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Location
At the entrance of the harbor of the Mediterranean island of Rhodes in Greece
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The construction of the Colossus took 12 years and was finished in 282 BC. For years, the statue stood at the harbor entrance, until a strong earthquake hit Rhodes about 226 BC. The city was badly damaged, and the Colossus was broken at its weakest point -- the knee. The Rhodians received an immediate offer from Ptolemy III ruler of Egypt to cover all restoration costs for the broken monument. An oracle was consulted and forbade the re-erection. Ptolemy's offer was declined.
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The Colossus of Rhodes stood 70 cubits tall, over 30 metres (100 feet), making it the tallest statue of the ancient world.
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The Mausoleum
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History
The Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, was a tomb built between 353 and 350 BC at Halicarnassus for Mausolus, a ruler in the Persian Empire, and Artemisia II of Caria, his wife and sister. The structure was designed by the Greek architects Satyrus and Pythius. It stood approximately 45 meters in height, and each of the four sides was adorned with sculpturs
Tomb
Like the pyramid, the mauseleum is a tomb. Although both are tombs, they have some differences. Geographically, it is closer to the Temple of Artemis and it was the beauty of the tomb rather than its size that fascinated its visitors for years.
Location
In the city of Bodrum (Halicarnassus) on the Aegean Sea, in south-west Turkey.
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The Lighthouse
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Location
On the ancient island of Pharos, now a promontory within the city of Alexandria in Egypt.
Use
Of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, only one had a practical use in addition to its architectural elegance: The Lighthouse of Alexandria. For sailors, it ensured a safe return to the Great Harbor. For architects, it meant even more: it was the tallest building on Earth. And for scientists, it was the mirror that fascinated them most. The mirror which reflection could be seen more than 50 km off-shore.
Destruction
In AD 956, an earthquake shook Alexandria, and caused little damage to the Lighthouse. It was later in 1303 and in 1323 that two stronger earthquakes left a significant impression on the structure. Then, an arab general used the stones from the lighthouse to build a fortrees in the same spot as the lighthouse
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The Temple of Artemis
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On the night of 21 July 356 BC, a man named Herostratus burned the temple to ground in to immortalize his name. Alexander the Great was born the same night. The Roman historian Plutarch later wrote that the goddess was "too busy taking care of the birth of Alexander to send help to her threatened temple".
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The ancient city of Ephesus near the modern town of Selcuk, about 50 km south of Izmir (Smyrna) in Turkey.
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The Temple was built on honor of the greek godess of hunting and wild nature. It was decorated with bronze statues sculpted by the most skilled artists of that time.
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The temple housed many works of art, including four ancient bronze statues of Amazons sculpted by the finest artists at the time. The temple was adorned with golden pillars and silver statuettes, and was decorated with paintings. There is no evidence that a statue of Artemis was placed on the sanctuary, but there is no proof to that.
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